In Pilgrim Drag by Susan M. G. Dingle

In Pilgrim Drag

by Susan M. G. Dingle

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-292-4

2020

Susan M. G. Dingle (formerly known as Susan Grathwohl) received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Between 1971-1976, her poetry was published in APR, the Ohio Review, Partisan Review, Feminist Studies and elsewhere, and in For Neruda, For Chile, an anthology edited by Walter Lowenfels (Beacon Press, 1976).  In 2013, she resumed publication as Susan Dingle in The Poetry of Well-Being, with Maggie Bloomfield and Nina Yavel. Her poems have since appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, and several anthologies with Local Gems. She has featured at readings throughout Long Island. In 2014, with Robert A. “Bubbie” Brown, Susan started and hosted Poetry Street at the Blue Duck Bakery Café in Riverhead. In 2016, in collaboration with Maggie Bloomfield, she wrote, produced and performed Break Out!, a two-woman show about recovery told in poetry, at the Southampton Cultural Center in 2016, and at the East End Fringe Festival in Riverhead in 2017. In 2017 Susan received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Meritorious Award from First Baptist Church of Riverhead. She is currently in the M.Div. Program at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and preaches throughout Long Island, a testimony to God’s amazing grace. Parting Gifts, her first collection, was published by Local Gems in 2019. See also www.ourpoetrystreet.com, and www.susandingle.com.